CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -India’s commercial coal mining capacity is set to rise with Western Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India, announcing the opening of three new coal mines in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three mines which WCL has opened, are a) Adasa Mine, an underground to open cast mine, in Nagpur Area of Maharashtra, b) Sharda underground Mine in Kanhan Area and c) Dhankasa underground mine in Pench Area of Madhya Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ancient China and recorded history The earliest references of coal mining come from China with a coal mine being opened over 3, 000 years ago. By 200BC the Chinese were using coal for heat and as a trading commodity. It was also vital to China’s metallurgy industry that first began to flourish around 120BC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The states in which Gondwana coal fields are found include Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Sikkim, Assam, with the quantity of reserves in the same order.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jharkhand has the highest coal reserves in India.